The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-01-20


lowing inventors b. S. Molyneux, Mime
apolis, knock-down table; Orville II. Curtis.
st. Paul, rubber goods trade mark.
w. G. Deshler. a millionaire banker ol
Columbus Ohio, has presented the female
benev olent society of that city with a
check for 100000.
Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge has resumed the
editorship of st. Nicholas at a salary o
$4,000 year.
Hon. James G. Blaine, in letter to
friend in Washington county, Pa, alludes
feelinsly to the death OF Gen. Logan, and
fa~ors the erection OF q monument to his
memory at Springfield, III. He thinks
500, 600 for that purpose could easily be
raised in small amounts.
Telegrams from all quarters OF Texas tell
OF severely cold weather.
The adjutant general OF Texas denounces
the Knights of Labor.
Charles Moffatt travelling agent for Eli
son Il Son OF Milwaukee, committed sui
eide at the Wyatt hotel, Uni"ntown,
Pa. by shooting himself through the head
No cause Is assigned for the deed.
At Mandan, Oak. fire burned the home
OF w. A. Carr Nothing was saved. Loss,
81, 500; insured in the Continental foi
$4uO.
The guekwar OF Baroda in India owns
one large diamond valued at $3.50, 600,
and diamond necklace worth $780,
900.
Galignani has built an almshouse fol
broken down literary men at Nenilly.
France, which cost several million francs.
A terrible snow storm has prevailed
throughout the midland counties in Eng
land. Much loss OF lie is feared. Ths
highways and railways are impossible ir
many places, and the mills are blocked.
Brevet Brig. Gen. Thomas Duncan, United
States Army. retired, died after a short ill
Eess, at his home in Washington.
Mrs. Sally Washington, who died recent.
ly, aged eighty -seven years, was grand
niece OF Gen. Washington, and the widow
Of Mr.. Lawrence Washington OF Westmore.
land county, Virginia.
Senator Brown OF Georgia denies that
he is going to resign.
Fort Smelling is to be made regiment
al post.
Postmaster general exonerates ex-Post
master Laraway OF Minneapolis from
| blame for the big burglary.
| Attorney General Garland appears in
| puclic for the first time with his cabinet
associates at Gen. Logan's funeral.
Both Secretary Endicott and Gen. Sheri
dan are in favor OF making regimental
post OF Fort Smelling and OF concentrating
there an additional number OF troops.
Gen. Ruger has been asked for plans and
estimates.
Representative Reagan left for Texas Jan
uary the Sth, to take an active part in the
senatorial contest. He will remain away
two weeks, and in the meantime the con-
duct Of the interstate commerce bill-if the
conference report is agreed to in the senate
will be left in the hands OF Mr.. Crisp ol
Georgia, the third member of the house
conferees.
A Berlin special says: Rumors are rife
that the garrisons on the frontier are to bs
largely increased. From authentic sourc.
es it islearned that the garrisons at Saarse
mund, Forback, Dieuze, Colmar and Hun.
ingue have been largely reinforced, but
| there are doubts as to the accuracy OF the
| report that the German garrisons in AL
sace-Lorraine now muster 300, 600 men,
whereas the normal number OF the troops
| in the garrisons in that province is 1O0,
900. The troops are now being drilled
daily for three hours in the use OF repeat
ing rifles recently adopted by the govern
ment for the purpose OF making them
proficient in volley firing.
Ferdinand Gentuer, who is said to have
been the first man to brew lager beer in
America, forty years ago, died ut College
Point, n. Y.
Senator Don Cameron pays taxes on
| $50, 900 worth OF property in Washing
| ton.
| Judge Pickett, of Connecticut, has fined
| two superintendents Of two New England
railroads for blacklisting workingman.
| St. Paul has "Possum Club, p" compos
| ed of natives of the Sunny South, and once
| a year they dine on 'Possum at the Ryan
Hotel.
The German ship Elizabeth stranded on
the Virginia coast near Cape Henry.
| Twenty men lost their lives, including five
| OF the brave members OF the life-saving
! crews.
Senator Frye has proposed an amend
ment to the postoffice appropriation bill,
making an appropriation OF $4oO, 900 for
| the transportation of South American
| mails in American vessels.
Senator Plumb of Kansas introduced a
bill authorizing registers and receivers at
the land office where there was no court
present to ssuejudicial processes, to issue
| subpen@s for Witnesses wanted in land
cases. Witnesses are to be allowed ST. so
| for each days attendance and five cents
| per mile mileage going and coming. This
bill, it is thought. will obviate many diff
culties now surrounding the just hearing OF
cases before local land officers who arc
greatly handicapped by their inability to
compel the attendance OF proper witnesses.
| The president has declined to interfere IN
the cases OF j John T. Ecces, James Lowell
and Albert O'Dell, who are to be hanged
at Fort Smith, Ark, for murder.
| The president nominated as consuls
Isaac r. Diller OF Illinois A. Florence and
Willoughby Walling OF Indiana. at Leitz.
The list of killed by the late accident on
| the Baltimore and Ohio railroad is now
given as follows: David Ober, Oberlin, Pa. !;
Frank Bowman, Mechanicsburg, Pa; john
s. Gartner, Mechanicsville, Iowa: w. H.
Parks, Washington.D c.; Joseph Postleth.
waite and his two sons, Spencer and Henry,
Martinburg w. Va; T. 0. Pemberton,
Payne, Ohio.
Alva Adams, Colorado's new governor, is
from Dane county, Wisconsin.
Senator Joe Brown OF Georgia has given
away $1,000 to various charitable in
stitutions in the South.
John Fitzgerald, president OF the Irish
National League OF America, has contrib.
uted 81, 900 to the Mrs. Logan fund.
Capt. r. B. Mason. one of the pioneers OF
the Northwest, q highly esteemed citizen oi
Bismarck, died suddenly OF heart disease.
Capt. Mason was prominently connected
with the construction OF the Northern
Pacific road at Bismarck, and with the de-
velopment OF more important enterprise.
August Colt. OF Eau Claire, was killed in
the woods by tree falling on him.
| All the horse car men OF Boston struck
onMonday the 10th, but the companies
conceded to their demands.
Michael Davitt was interviewed in Chica-
70, and said: "The difficulties in the way
OF Lord Salisbury's administration have
been brought. about by a demoralizing
condition Of affairs; first in his own cabin.
ct, resulting in the resigna tion OF Randolph
Churchill, Lord Iddesleigh and Lord Cross
second, the fulfillment lin the condition o
things in Ireland) Of Mr.. Gladstone's pro
phetic declaration, made eight or ten
months ago, that Ireland could not possi
bly, be governed except under u home rule
cons titution, 10 naturally encouraging to
the ex-premier." what do you see in
the horizon that il encour aging to your.
self" "A great deal. The impending col.
lapse Of the tory government is gratifying
The breaking down Of the tory party have
predicted in every address l have deliv
cred in the United = States during
the mast four months. / see thu